JP2008290040A - Grain adjustment apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a grain adjustment apparatus which can perform rice milling work or additional desired work, even if a stone removing device etc. is set lateral to a rice milling apparatus. <P>SOLUTION: The grain adjustment apparatus 1 has the stone removing device 10 removing small stones from brown rice and the rice milling apparatus 30 for making milled rice from the brown rice from the device 10. The stone removing device 10 has a box-like body opened at an upper part and having a discharge port on the side, a stone removing side hopper detachably mounted to inside the body, and a holding plate detachably mounted to any one of the front and rear plates of the body. The stone removing side hopper can be inserted into the body with the front side rear. The rice milling apparatus 30 has a conveying part 31 conveying upward the brown rice from the stone removing device 10, and a polishing part 35 disposed lateral to the conveying part 31 and making the milled rice from the brown rice from the conveying part 31. A frame 61 mounted with the conveying part 31 and polishing part 35 can be changed over in the right/left direction. A crushed rice taking-out part 50 is provided under the polishing part 35, and can be disposed in any direction of front, one side of right and left and the other side of the polishing apparatus 30. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a grain adjusting device including a stone removing device that removes pebbles from supplied brown rice, and a rice milling device that mills brown rice from which pebbles have been removed by the stone removing device into white rice.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a grain adjustment device, as shown in Patent Document 1, a device in which a rice milling device including a lifting machine, a rice milling machine, a rice milling machine, and the like is provided as a set is known.

  As shown in FIG. 6 (perspective view), the grain adjusting device 80 includes a rectangular parallelepiped machine casing 81, and a cover 82 is detachably attached to substantially the entire machine casing 81. A box-like case 83 is detachably attached to the lower left part of the front of the machine frame, and the case 83 can be moved by a plurality of casters 84 provided at the lower part of the case 83. A supply hopper 85 is provided in the upper part of the case 83, and a rice bag stand 86 on which a rice bag can be placed is provided in the front part of the case 83. The brown rice in the rice bag is supplied to the supply hopper 85, and the case It is discharged downward from the bottom of 83. The rice bag base 86 is attached to the front side of the case 83 so as to be rotatable in the vertical direction.

  In the lower part of the case 83, a specific gravity sorting type stone removing device 87 (in the literature, a stone removing machine) is provided. The stone removing device 87 is slidable to the front side and the back surface side of the case 83. When the stone removing device 87 is slid from the lower part of the front of the case by rotating the rice bag base 86 upward, the stone removing device 87 is moved. 87 can be installed below the supply hopper 85.

  In the machine frame 81, from the brown rice tank which accommodates the brown rice from which the brown rice from which the pebbles etc. were removed by the stone extraction apparatus 87 is conveyed to the upper end part of a device, the brown rice supplied from a 1st elevator, The rice milling machine that mills the supplied brown rice into white rice, the small rice removing device that removes small rice etc. from the white rice polished by the rice milling machine (in the literature, a broken rice sorter), and the small rice removing device removed the small rice etc. A second elevator that conveys white rice to the upper end of the apparatus, a color selection tank that accommodates white rice supplied from the second elevator, and a color sorter 88 that removes colored rice and foreign substances from the white rice supplied from the color selection tank And a third elevator 89 for conveying the white rice from which the colored rice or the like has been removed by the color sorter 88 to the upper end of the apparatus and discharging it from the upper part in front of the apparatus.

JP 2005-334731 A

  In this conventional grain adjusting device 80, the stone removing device 87 is disposed in front of the machine frame of the grain adjusting device 80, but depending on the installation location of the grain adjusting device 80, brown rice is supplied to the stone removing device 87 and the first one. It may be easier to use if the direction of the flow discharged to one elevator is the same as the machine frame width direction. In such a case, in the conventional grain adjusting device 80, the first elevator and the brown rice tank provided in the machine casing 81 are configured to be installed only at predetermined positions in the machine casing 81. Even if the extraction device 87 is arranged on the side of the machine frame 81, the installation position of the first elevator and the brown rice tank cannot be changed, so that the brown rice can be supplied from the stone extraction device 87 to the first elevator. As a result, there arises a disadvantage that the rice milling operation cannot be performed.

  Further, in the conventional grain adjusting device 80, when the weighing machine unit is installed at one end in the grain adjusting device width direction in order to provide a step of weighing and packing the white rice after the rice milling process, Since the discharge unit 89a is disposed so as to protrude forward from the front of the machine casing 81, the product tank of the weighing machine unit is discharged from the discharge unit 89a in a state where the product tank is disposed behind the front of the machine casing. When a straight pipe for supplying white rice to the weighing machine unit is to be connected between the discharge part 89a and the product tank, the middle of the pipe comes into contact with the machine frame 81, and the discharge part 89a and the product tank The inconvenience that it cannot be connected to the computer occurs.

  The present invention has been made for such a problem, and even if a specific machine such as a stone removing device or a weighing machine unit is installed on the side of the rice milling device, the rice milling operation or the added desired operation can be performed. It aims to provide a possible grain adjustment device.

  In order to solve such a problem, the present invention has the following features. One of the features is a grain adjusting device having a stone removing device for removing pebbles from the supplied brown rice, and a rice milling device for converting the brown rice supplied from the stone removing device into white rice. The extraction device is characterized in that it is installed on either side in the width direction of the rice milling apparatus and is coupled to the rice milling apparatus.

  According to this feature, the stone removing device is installed on either side in the width direction of the rice milling apparatus and coupled to the rice milling device, so that the stone removing device can be installed on either side in the width direction of the rice milling device, The brown rice from which the pebbles have been removed by the stone removing device is supplied to the rice milling device, and the brown rice can be polished into white rice. Therefore, it is possible to provide a grain adjusting device capable of performing a rice milling operation regardless of whether the stone removing device is installed on either side of the width direction of the rice milling device.

  Also, one of the features is that the stone extraction device has a box-shaped main body with an opening at the top and a discharge port on one side, and is inserted into the main body from the upper opening. There is a stone extraction side hopper that is mounted so as to be fed with brown rice, and a tension plate that can be detachably attached to either the front plate or the rear plate of the main body to mount a bag containing brown rice The stone extraction hopper can be mounted with its front-rear direction reversed with respect to the main body.

  According to this feature, the stone removal side hopper can be mounted in the main body portion by reversing the front-rear direction with respect to the main body portion, so that the stone removal device is moved from one side to the other side in the width direction of the rice milling device. When installing, the main body part is inverted in the front-rear direction so that the discharge port of the stone removal device faces the milling machine side, and the stone removal side hopper is inverted in the front-rear direction with respect to the main body part and attached to the main body part. To do. For this reason, even if the installation position of the stone removing device with respect to the rice polishing device in the width direction is changed, the stone removing device can be coupled to the rice polishing device, and the stone removing hopper is always oriented in a predetermined direction with respect to the main body. Can be attached to.

  In addition, one of the features is that the rice milling apparatus is a white rice that mills the brown rice supplied from the transport unit, which is disposed on the side of the transport unit, and a transport unit that transports the brown rice supplied from the stone removing device upward. It is characterized in that it can be installed by replacing the conveying unit and the milling unit in the width direction of the rice milling apparatus.

  According to this feature, when the installation position of the rice milling machine width direction of the rice milling apparatus width direction of the rice milling apparatus is interchangeable, when the stone removing apparatus is installed on one side or the other side of the rice milling apparatus width direction, By changing the installation position of the conveying unit and the milling unit according to the installation position of the milling device, it is possible to couple the stone drilling device to the rice milling device regardless of the width direction of the rice milling device. The brown rice from the stone extraction device can be supplied to the rice milling device and polished into white rice.

  One of the features is that, while removing small rice etc. from the white rice discharged from the milling section, a small rice removing section for discharging the white rice from which the small rice has been removed is provided. It is characterized in that it can be arranged in the rice milling apparatus in a posture oriented in one of the width direction and the other direction.

  According to this feature, there is provided a small rice removing portion for discharging white rice obtained by removing small rice etc. from the white rice discharged from the milling portion, and the small rice removing portion is located on the front side of the rice milling device, one side in the width direction of the rice milling device, and the other side. Can be disposed in the rice milling apparatus in a posture facing either direction, so that the white rice from which the small rice has been removed can be removed from the small rice removal part either on the front side of the rice milling apparatus, on one side or the other side in the rice milling machine width direction. Can be discharged in either direction. For this reason, a color sorter for performing a color sorting process for removing colored rice and foreign matters after the rice milling process, and a weighing machine unit for weighing and packing white rice after the milling process, in front of the rice milling apparatus, the width of the rice milling apparatus It can be installed at any position on one side and the other side of the direction, and the usability of the grain adjusting device can be further improved.

  One of the features is that a rice hopper is provided to store the brown rice conveyed by the conveyance unit and supply brown rice to the milled portion, and is provided on both sides of the rice milling hopper in the width direction of the rice milling device, at the top of the conveyance unit. A connection port that is connected to and communicates with the discharge port is provided.

  According to this feature, by providing connection ports connected to the discharge port of the transfer unit on both sides of the rice milling hopper in the width direction of the rice milling device, the stone removing device is installed at any position on both sides of the rice milling device width direction. Even if it is done, the brown rice supplied to the conveyance part from the stone extraction device can be reliably supplied to the milled rice hopper.

  In addition, one of the features is that the milled rice hopper is provided with brown rice presence / absence detecting means (for example, sensor 73 in the embodiment) for detecting the presence or absence of brown rice in the polished rice hopper, and according to a detection signal from the brown rice presence / absence detecting means. And a control device for controlling the on / off operation of the stone removing device.

  According to this feature, there is provided brown rice presence / absence detection means in the polished rice hopper, and a control device for controlling the on / off operation of the stone removing device according to the detection signal from the brown rice presence / absence detection means is provided. When there is no brown rice, the stone removing device is in a stopped state, and when the brown rice is in the polished rice hopper, the stone removing device can be prevented from being in an operating state. For this reason, it is possible to prevent the situation where the milling operation is interrupted or the brown rice in the milled hopper overflows, and the workability of the milling operation by the grain adjusting device can be improved.

  According to the grain adjustment device according to the present invention, having the above-described characteristics, even if a specific machine such as a stone removing device or a weighing machine unit is installed on the side of the rice milling device, the rice milling operation or the desired additional work is added. It is possible to provide a grain adjusting device capable of.

  Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of a grain adjusting device of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. For convenience of explanation, the directions of the arrows shown in FIG. 1 (external perspective view) and FIG. 2 (internal structure diagram) will be described below as the front-rear direction and the left-right direction.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the grain adjusting device 1 includes a stone removing device 10 that removes pebbles from supplied brown rice, and a rice milling device 30 that polishes the brown rice supplied from the stone removing device 10 into white rice. And is configured.

  The stone extraction apparatus 10 includes a box-shaped main body 11 that is open at the top and hollow inside. The main body 11 is formed in a square shape in a plan view, and a discharge port (not shown) protruding outward is provided at the center lower portion of the right side plate 11a, and the middle of the front plate 11b of the main body 11 in the vertical direction. A tension plate 12 on which a bag containing brown rice is placed can be detachably attached. The tension plate 12 can be detachably attached to an intermediate portion in the vertical direction of the rear plate 11c of the main body 11. The main body 11 is not limited to a square shape in a plan view, and can be formed into an arbitrary shape such as a rectangular shape or a circular shape in a plan view as long as a stone extraction side hopper 15 described later can be detachably mounted in the main body portion 11. can do.

  At the upper part in the main body part 11, the above-described stone-extracted hopper 15 that is inserted through the upper opening part 11 d that opens at the upper part of the main body part 11 and fed with brown rice is mounted. The stone-extracted hopper 15 is formed in an inverted quadrangular pyramid shape and has a square shape in a plan view, and a frame body 16 extending upward is attached to each upper end of both the left and right sides and the rear part. These frame bodies 16 are continuously connected, and the frame body 16 surrounds both the left and right sides and the rear side of the opening portion 17 except for the front side of the opening portion 17 that opens to the upper portion of the stone extraction side hopper 15. In other words, the side where the frame body 16 is not provided is the front side of the stone extraction side hopper 15 in the stone extraction side hopper 15. The frame body 16 protrudes upward from the upper end of the main body 11 when the deburring hopper 15 is attached to the main body 11, and supplies the brown rice from the front side of the deburring device 10 into the deburring hopper 15. While making it easy to do, the spillage of the brown rice stuck in the stone extraction side hopper 15 is suppressed.

  The stone removal hopper 15 can be inserted by being inverted 180 ° in the front-rear direction with respect to the main body 11 of the stone removal device 10. Therefore, when the stone removing device 10 is installed by moving from the left side to the right side of the rice milling device 30, the details will be described later, but the main body portion 11 so that the discharge port of the main body portion 11 of the stone removing device 10 faces the left side. In the state where the front-rear direction is inverted by 180 °, the stone-extracted hopper 15 with the front side facing forward is mounted on the inverted main body 11.

  A pebbles removing unit (not shown) is provided on the lower side in the main body 11 to remove the pebbles from the brown rice by providing the inclined net-like member and selecting the specific gravity of the brown rice. The brown rice from which the pebbles have been removed by the pebbles removing unit moves to a discharge port provided in the main body 11.

  The rice milling device 30 accommodates the brown rice fed from the conveyor unit 31 and the bucket belt type conveyor unit 31 that conveys the brown rice supplied from the stone removing device 10 upward. A milled rice hopper 33, a milling unit 35 that is disposed on the right side of the transport unit 31 and that turns brown rice supplied from the milled rice hopper 33 into white rice, a right side of the transport unit 31, and a right side of the milled unit 35. It has a small rice removing portion 50 that is disposed below and removes small rice and the like from the white rice discharged from the milling portion 35. A frame 61 extending upward is detachably attached to the bottom plate 60 via a fastening means such as a bolt at the center of the bottom plate 60 disposed in the lower portion of the rice milling device 30, and the rice milling hopper 33, A milling portion 35 and a small rice removing portion 50 are attached.

  On the bottom plate 60, a frame body (not shown) surrounding the frame 61 to which the transport unit 31, the finer unit 35 and the like are mounted is mounted, and the panels 62, 63, 64, 65, 66 are detachably attached. An operation unit 68 is provided at the upper part of the front panel 62, a discharge chute 69 for discharging the polished white rice is provided at the vertical middle part of the panel 62, and a small rice receiving box 70 is put in and out at the lower part of the panel 62. It is provided as possible. Each of the left and right side plates 64 and 65 includes a lower side plate (not shown) that is detachable on the lower side, and when the lower side plate is removed, an intake port provided at a lower portion of the transport unit 31 provided in the frame body is exposed. Thus, the brown rice discharged from the stone removing device 10 can be supplied to the transport unit 31. In addition, a hole (not shown) is provided on the lower side of the side plates 64 and 65, and a lid plate (not shown) for closing the hole is detachably attached to the hole, and the brown rice discharged from the stone removing device 10 is removed. The lid plate may be removed from the hole when supplying the toner to the transport unit 31.

  An attachment port (not shown) to which the discharge chute 69 can be attached is provided in the middle portion in the vertical direction of the left and right side plates 64 and 65. This attachment port is closed by a cover plate (not shown) when not in use, and the cover plate is removed and the attachment port is opened during use.

  The conveyance unit 31 is detachably attached to the upper left surface of the bottom plate 60 via fastening means such as bolts. As shown in FIG. 3 (internal structure diagram), the conveyance unit 31 and the frame 61 can be attached to the bottom plate 60 while being interchanged with respect to the bottom plate 60 in the left-right direction. That is, the rice milling hopper 33, the milling unit 35, the small rice harvesting unit 50, and the like attached to the transport unit 31 and the frame 61 can be installed in the left-right direction with respect to the bottom plate 60.

  The milled rice hopper 33 is formed in an inverted pyramid shape, and the left and right side plates 33a are provided with rectangular connection ports 33b connected to and communicating with the discharge ports 31a provided on the upper portion of the transport unit 31. ing. The connection port 33b is configured to be covered with a lid member 33c when not connected to the discharge port 31a.

  The milling unit 35 is provided with a lateral feed mechanism unit 36 that transports the brown rice supplied from the milled rice hopper 33 in the lateral direction and supplies the brown rice to the milling unit 35. As shown in FIG. 4A (internal structure diagram), the transverse feed mechanism unit 36 moves the spiral screw 37, the motor 38 that rotates the screw 37, and the brown rice supplied from the milled hopper 33 upstream of the spiral screw 37. A supply port 39 for supplying to the side is provided.

  As shown in FIG. 4B (cross-sectional view), the milling portion 35 is supported in a cylindrically shaped milling case 41, a bearing case 42 attached to the upper part of the milling case 41, and rotatably in these cases. It has a heel axis 44. A net member 45 that is formed in a cylindrical shape and extends in the longitudinal direction of the polishing case 41 is attached to the center of the polishing case 41. Inside the net member 45, a sperm chamber 46 into which the sperm shaft 44 can be inserted is formed. Inside the bearing case 42, an insertion hole 43 through which the milling shaft 44 can be inserted is formed, and the insertion hole 43 communicates with the milling chamber 46. The insertion shaft 44 is inserted into the insertion hole 43 and the sperm chamber 46 in this communication state, and is rotatably supported.

  The insertion shaft 44 is arranged with a first refinement screw 44a, a grinding roll 44b, a second refinement screw 44c, and a friction roll 44d from above, and can be driven to rotate by a main motor 47 attached to a frame 61 shown in FIG. . An annular resistance portion (not shown) is provided below the finer portion 35 so as to be movable along the axial direction of the finer shaft 44. This resistance portion is moved up and down by a driving device 49 attached to the milling unit 35 to change the cross-sectional area of the discharge path of the white rice discharged from the milling unit 35 to adjust the milling accuracy of the white rice.

  The polishing unit 35 configured in this manner feeds the brown rice fed into the bearing case 42 by the lateral feeding mechanism 36 into the milling chamber 46 while being pressed by the first milling screw 44a. The brown rice fed into the milling chamber 46 is milled by the grinding roll 44 b and then further refined by the friction roll 44 d while being pressed downward by the second milling screw 44 c and discharged through the resistance portion 48. Here, the rice cake removed from the brown rice in the rice milling chamber 46 is sucked by a dust collector rice cake (not shown) connected to the rice milling device 30, passes through the net member 45, and passes through the space 41 a in the rice milling case 41. It is sent to the dust collector.

  On the other hand, the white rice sent out from the resistance unit 48 falls naturally and is supplied to the small rice collecting unit 50. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, the small rice removing unit 50 removes small rice from the supplied white rice, and the white rice from which the small rice has been removed is discharged to the outside through the discharge chute 69. It naturally falls downward from the take-up portion 50 and is accommodated in a small rice receiving box 70 installed below the small rice catching portion 50.

  The small rice harvesting portion 50 is attached to the frame 61 via a small rice harvesting base plate 51 disposed at a lower position thereof. The small rice collection base plate 51 is formed in a box shape having an open bottom surface and a hollow inside, and then the plate 51a is detachably attached to the frame 61 via fastening means such as bolts. The small rice collection base plate 51 is detachably attached to the frame 61 through fastening means such as bolts as in the case of the rear plate 51a. For this reason, when the right side plate 51b of the small rice harvesting base plate 51 is attached to the frame 61, the small rice harvesting portion 50 is turned to the right and the milled white rice is discharged to the right side of the rice milling device 30. Can do. Further, when the left side plate 51b of the small rice harvesting base plate 51 is attached to the frame 61, the small rice harvesting portion 50 is turned to the left side, and the polished white rice can be discharged to the left side of the rice milling device 30. .

  Next, the case where the stone extraction apparatus 10 is installed from the left side to the right side of the rice milling apparatus 30 will be described. First, the main body 11 of the stone removing apparatus 10 shown in FIG. 1 is inverted 180 degrees in the front-rear direction and the discharge port is directed to the left side. Further, the stone extraction side hopper 15 is taken out from the main body portion 11, and the stone extraction side hopper 15 is inverted by 180 ° in the front-rear direction so that the front side of the stone extraction side hopper 15 faces forward and is attached to the main body portion 11. Further, the tension plate 12 is detached from the front plate 11b and attached to the rear plate 11c.

  On the other hand, in the rice milling device 30, the frame 61 and the transport unit 31 to which the milling unit 35 and the like are attached are switched in the left-right direction and attached to the bottom plate 60. Further, the discharge port 31a of the transport unit 31 is connected to the right connection port 33b of the milled rice hopper 33, and the left connection port 33b is covered with a lid member 33c. When replacing the frame 61 and the transport unit 31, it is not necessary to remove the frame from the bottom plate 60 as long as the frame 61 and the transport unit 31 can be replaced with a frame (not shown) attached to the bottom plate 60. . In this case, the panels 62, 64, 65, etc. are removed from the frame. If the frame 61 and the transport unit 31 cannot be replaced unless the frame is removed from the bottom plate 60, the frame is removed from the bottom plate 60.

  Then, when the replacement work of the frame 61 and the transport unit 31 is completed, the removed panels 62, 64, 65, and the like are attached to the frame body. At this time, the lower side plate of the right panel 65 is removed. Then, as shown in FIG. 5 (perspective view), the stone removing device 10 is installed on the right side of the rice milling device 30 so that the discharge port of the stone removing device 10 and the intake port of the transport unit 31 are combined. The installation work of the extraction device 10 is completed. In addition, the installation method of the stone removing device 10 is not limited to the above-described case. After the stone removing device 10 is moved to the right side of the rice milling device 30, the main body portion 11 and the stone removing side hopper 15 of the stone removing device 10 are moved. The stone removing device 10 may be coupled to the rice milling device 30 by inverting it.

  As described above, the grain adjusting device 1 of the present application can supply brown rice from which pebbles have been removed by the stone removing device 10 to the rice polishing device 30 regardless of whether the stone removing device 10 is installed on the right side or the left side of the rice polishing device 30. Therefore, in the installation place where it is easier to use the stone removing device 10 on either the left or right side of the rice milling device 30, the stone removing device 10 is installed on either the left or right side of the rice polishing device 30. Can improve the workability of the rice milling work.

  Further, the small rice harvesting portion 50 can be disposed in the rice milling device 30 with the posture facing the front side, the left direction side, or the right side of the rice milling device 30 via the small rice harvesting base plate 51. The discharge direction of the white rice discharged from the milling unit 35 can be any one of the front, left direction, and right direction of the rice milling device 30. For this reason, in order to provide a color sorting process for removing colored rice and foreign substances after the rice milling process and a process for weighing and packing white rice, a color sorter and a weighing machine unit are installed on the side of the rice milling apparatus 30; When the discharge chute 69 of the rice milling device 30 is provided on the panels 64 and 65 arranged in the left-right direction of the rice milling device 30, a gap between the color selection tank in the color sorter and the product tank in the weighing machine unit and the discharge chute 69 is provided. There are no obstacles when connecting with straight pipes. Therefore, the grain adjustment device 1 of the present application can communicate the rice milling device 30 with the color sorter and the weighing machine unit with a straight pipe in a flexible manner corresponding to the installation location of the color sorter and the weighing machine unit. Easy to use.

  The stone removing device 10 may be turned on / off depending on the presence or absence of brown rice in the rice milling hopper 33 of the rice milling device 30. In this case, as shown in FIG. 2, a sensor 73 that detects the presence or absence of brown rice in the hopper is provided in the milled rice hopper 33, and the operation of the stone removing device 10 is controlled according to the detection signal from the sensor 73. A control device 75 is provided (in the drawing, the control device 75 is provided in the stone removing device 10). The control device 75 may be provided in the rice milling device 30. When the control device 75 receives from the sensor 73 a detection signal indicating that there is no brown rice in the milled rice hopper 33, the control device 75 puts the stone removing device 10 into an operating state and sends a signal indicating that brown rice is present in the milled rice hopper 33 to the sensor 73. The control of the stone removing device 10 is controlled so that the stone removing device 10 is stopped.

  In this way, by controlling the operation of the stone removing device 10 according to the presence or absence of brown rice in the polished rice hopper 33, the stone removing device 10 is in a stopped state when there is no brown rice in the polished rice hopper 33, It is possible to prevent a situation in which the stone removing device 10 is in an operating state with brown rice in the hopper 33. For this reason, the situation where the milling operation is interrupted or the brown rice in the milled hopper 33 overflows can be prevented, and the workability of the milling operation by the grain adjusting device 1 can be improved.

The perspective view of the grain adjustment apparatus at the time of installing the stone extraction apparatus of the grain adjustment apparatus concerning one embodiment of this invention in the left side of the rice milling apparatus is shown. The internal structure figure of the rice milling apparatus which is a part of the grain adjustment apparatus concerning one embodiment of this invention is shown. The internal structure figure of the rice milling apparatus which installed the frame and the conveyance part which attached the milling part etc. in the rice milling apparatus in the left-right direction is shown. 1 shows a milling part of a grain adjusting device according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which FIG. (A) is an internal structure diagram of a transverse feed mechanism part attached to the milling part, and (b) is a cross section of the milling part. FIG. The perspective view of the grain adjustment apparatus at the time of installing the stone extraction apparatus of the grain adjustment apparatus concerning one embodiment of this invention in the right side of the rice milling apparatus is shown. The perspective view of the conventional grain adjustment apparatus is shown.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Grain adjustment apparatus 10 Stone removal apparatus 11 Main body part 11b Front board 11c Rear board 12 Tightening board 15 Stone extraction side hopper 30 Rice milling apparatus 31 Conveyance part 31a Discharge port 33 Rice milling side hopper 33b Connection port 35 Milling part 50 Rice removal part 73 Sensor (Brown rice presence detection means)
75 Controller

Claims (6)

A grain adjusting device having a stone removing device that removes pebbles from supplied brown rice, and a rice milling device that polishes brown rice supplied from the stone removing device into white rice,
Grain adjusting device, wherein the stone removing device is installed on either side of the rice milling device width direction and is coupled to the rice milling device. The stone removing device has a box-shaped main body portion that is open at the top and has a discharge port on one side, and is detachably mounted in the main body portion by being inserted from the upper opening portion of the main body portion. A stone extraction side hopper to which brown rice is supplied, and a tension plate that can be detachably attached to either the front plate or the rear plate of the main body portion and on which a bag containing brown rice can be placed,
The grain adjusting device according to claim 1, wherein the stone extraction side hopper can be mounted with its front-rear direction reversed with respect to the main body. The rice milling apparatus includes a conveying unit that conveys the brown rice supplied from the stone removing device upward, and a milled rice that is disposed on the side of the conveying unit and that refines the brown rice supplied from the conveying unit into white rice. And
The grain adjusting device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the conveying unit and the milling unit can be installed by being switched in the width direction of the rice milling apparatus. While removing small rice and the like from the white rice discharged from the milled portion, provided a small rice removing portion that discharges the white rice from which the small rice has been removed,
4. The rice milling unit can be arranged in the rice milling apparatus in a posture facing either the front side of the rice milling apparatus, one side in the width direction of the rice milling apparatus, or the other side. Grain adjustment device as described in.   A rice milling hopper that accommodates the brown rice conveyed by the conveying unit and supplies the brown rice to the milling unit is provided, and spouts provided on the upper side of the conveying unit on both sides of the rice milling machine width direction of the rice milling hopper. The grain adjusting device according to claim 3 or 4, further comprising a connection port connected to and communicated with the outlet.   The rice hopper is provided with brown rice presence / absence detection means for detecting the presence or absence of brown rice in the rice hopper, and a control device for controlling the on / off operation of the stone removing device according to a detection signal from the brown rice presence / absence detection means. The grain adjusting device according to claim 5, wherein the grain adjusting device is provided.

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